Back Off, Santa!

(Yeah, I know it is only the beginning of November, but I’m gonna go there.)

Everything you’ve heard is true, my kids don’t really have Christmas stockings. Last year, sigh, Santa had to leave their stocking loot on the couch next to the unassembled carcasses of their stockings. Yes, I am a Crap Mom.

This year, however, I WILL FINISH ALL THE STOCKINGS BEFORE XMAS. The end. I don’t care what else happens. And of course, they aren’t just regular size stockings — I had to go and choose the 28″ ones. So if you see my blog go dark mid-December you will know what is going on. Just imagine me sequining my butt off. And cursing.

I have to go from this:

To this:

And what does it say about my work ethic that I stole those pictures from eBay!?

Comments

OhmiGod, I have had one of those hell-ish sequined stocking projects packed away for the past 6, yes SIX years. I finally sent it to my mom. I have no work ethic for that, heck I don’t even have the motivation to sew the top hems on the outrageously simple ones I cut from two pieces of fabric and sort-kinda sewed together three years ago. I just keep putting the goods in the not-even-half-done stockings year-after-year-after-year. LOL!

First of all, I bought our stockings. Secondly, Santa and his Mrs. don’t comunicate very well because: while there is a full stocking hung by the chimney with care there is also a CVS bag overflowing underneath it!!!!!So, you my friend are just fine!!!!

here is what you tell yourself: you could be the kind of craftster mom who makes her own christmas decorations by hand and then takes beautiful soft focus photographs of them and posts them up to make all the rest of feel like inadequate slobs. you could, but you choose instead to use your creative energy to write engaging, self-effacing blog entries that make all the rest of us inadequate slobs feel a little less alone in the world.

Don’t feel bad. I am not crafty at all. I give you thumbs up for even attempting this. I’m wanting to do some personalized photo calendars for family presents but I can see it turning into one of those many unfinished projects that goes to the crafter’s graveyard.

My girls’ stockings were given to them by my mom. I’ve already started putting some stocking stuffers aside that I’ve found at dollar stores, etc. I almost enjoy shopping for their little stocking stuffers more than presents, which I will wait until the very last minute and probably find online. Is that weird? Wait, don’t answer that.

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